Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-05
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's.

TO adjourn on Monday IN account Of
extreme cold.
The greatest variety OF teas and tobac-
cos in the Hills at Cochran's.
Marble Of the finest quality in varie-
gated colors has been found recently
near Hot Springs. Doc Pierce Of that
place is reported as the fortunate finder.
The Custer City Fire Company an
nounce a masquerade ball at the court
house on Tuesday evening, Feb. 22nd.
Attention is called to the ad Of Chas.
Hartman in this issue, who announces
his readiness to supply you with every
thing in his line at satisfactory rates.
If you want a good partner get the
Farmers Daughter.
The Homestake dividend for December
was 20 cents a share, a~ggregating SIS, 900.
This swells the total Of dividends to
date, Of which there has been 1872, to
$~3,723,75O.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's
st. Paul papers sparkle in their re-
citals of carnival scenes on ice and snow,
which are no doubt much more inter
esting in their realization, than are the
voluminous accounts presented for the
edifcation of their remote readers.
Cochran's for groceries and hardware,
the cheapest house in the Hills, and tn G
best goods in the market.
1t was a cold day when the lower
house Of the Dakota legislature had to
adjourn or freeze on the Goth ult. The
fury Of North Dakota blizzard coupled
with extreme cold rendered it intolera-
BILE, even to the hardy solons in fur
caps and buffalo overcoats,
The Farmers Daughter is a cook
stove, the best stove made. IL is sold at
j. Cochran's.
Wells, Forge & Co.'s annual statement
in regard to the production Of the preci-
Gus metals in 1886, recently issued,
gives the aggregate as follows: Gold,
$780, 73, 1859; Silver, $50, 776,O53; Copper,
S9,276,755; Lead, s. ,lS5, 1872. Total gross
result. sos. oil, 76l.
For fresh candy, genuine Havana
cigars, all kinds of pipes, go to Cochran's
where they sell cheap.
The Hermosa Pilot reports 10 clear
days In that place between November
LIST and January 2Sth, with 10 days
which were just a little hazy. The Pilot
weather reports are doubtless taken on
the spot, aud at the time the thing hap
pens, and should no., be regarded by
an %incredulous public as being too ex-
tremely hazy.
Sleighing is again in order in this
place. Nearly one foot OF the beautiful.
a very large instalment for this place,
makes it not only possible, but agreeable
on account of the luxury coming ut such
long intervals. Custer has not been
visited by snow of sufficient depth to
make %sleighing possible, except on two
occasions, in the past two years.
The members OF Custer City lodge No.
66, A.. +. q a. NJ. participated in a ban
quet at the Vienna hotel on Wednes-
day evening, generously rendered Ly
MIR. G. w. Robbins of this city, in com
memoration of the event of his having
conferred upon him certain mystic
honors, the true inwardness of which,
to this scribe, are provokingly obscure.
1t is said that the Fremont, EIkh orn
& Missouri Valley company will put on
another daily passenger train early in
the spring to run between Missouri
Valley and Chadron. The trains would
arrive about IL hours apart, one of them
making connection for Douglas and the
other for the Black Hills.-Chadron
Journal.
The Beadle county bar association
met at Huron on the LIST inst. and by
resolution, denounced Is false, and
groundless, the charges Of intemperance
preferred against Judge Church, Il copy
Of which resolution, signed by tine
mayor OF Huron, Police Judge Elsom.
District Attorney Sterling, and many
other prominent republican officials Of
that place, was sent to Senator Cullom
Mt Washington.
Mr.. Judd, general manager Of the
Miles City and Deadwood stage line, ar
rived yesterday. He made the trip to
Spearisk on horseback, and had an in
teresting experience with cold weather,
billiards.. snow drifts, and other similar
little inconvenience incident to such a
journey over the prairie in mid-winter.
He reports the snow all the way from
one to six feet deep from a point about
twelve miles this side Of Stoneville, to
the other end Of the road. While
coming through he saw numeroug dead
cattle dotting the prairies and thinks